By making small adjustments in your approach to serving clients, identifying and rewarding employees, and creating a meaningful work environment, any advisory can reap at least some of the benefits of startup success. Here are seven startup practices that you can put to work in your business.

To land on the list, female advisors were required to directly own at least 25 percent of the firm. Additionally, these women have at least some individual clients for whom they do financial planning and have no more than 50 percent institutional clients....More

The ascendancy of the registered investment advisor model continues, and the custodians are reaping the benefits. These firms continue to take a larger share of advised assets, often at the expense of the wirehouses. Here are the top RIA custodians by 2012 assets....More

Wealth Planning

Late-career years should be peak years for earning, saving and investing. But the numbers show that clients who want to mix work and play - often at the expense of saving - actually could be doing the best possible thing for their retirement security....More

Opinion

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority should be used to criticism by now, both from those who think the industry’s self-regulatory organization doesn’t go far enough in keeping bad brokers and Wall Street firms in check, to those who complain the authority wields an unholy power of destruction by over-burdening innocent and hardworking reps with cumbersome regulations and arbitrary enforcement....More

Would-be fraudsters beware: Eating the evidence will not deter the Securities and Exchange Commission. A Morgan Stanley stockbroker and an employee at a prominent New York law firm found that out the hard way when the two were charged with insider trading last month....More